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Operating Systems Solaris /etc/default/init LANG Setting Not Working Post 302960500 by kaledragule on Monday 16th of November 2015 11:23:36 AM
Old 11-16-2015
/etc/default/init LANG Setting Not Working

Hey guys,

I'm setting up a new server(Fujitsu M10-4 / Solaris 10 1/13) to move our app/DB and I'm having trouble figuring out why my LANG setting is not taking effect. I'm trying to set LANG=C in the /etc/default/init file which should make it the default system wide from what I gather. However it is always set to "en_US.UTF-8" when I log in. I've rebooted the server and removed/re-added the entry just to be sure, but no luck.

I can set the LANG setting to C in my shell manually, but it is not persistent when I switch over to bash or exit out. I've checked the /etc/profile, and the user profiles and I'm not finding anything that would be overriding the setting.

I suppose I can just set it in /etc/profile and the root profiles and call it a day, but I'd prefer to know exactly why the default init is not working for me. I'm hoping this is just something simple I'm missing. Anything to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

/etc/default/init contents:
Code:
#
# Copyright 1992, 1999-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
#ident  "@(#)init.dfl   1.7     02/12/03 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init.  /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not.  To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.  value may
# be enclosed in double quotes (") or single quotes (').
#
TZ=US/Eastern
CMASK=022
LANG=C

---------- Post updated at 11:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:21 AM ----------

Here are the locale settings:
Code:
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_CA
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-15@euro
en_US.UTF-8
es
es.UTF-8
es_MX
es_MX.ISO8859-1
es_MX.UTF-8
fr
fr.UTF-8
fr_CA
fr_CA.ISO8859-1
fr_CA.UTF-8
iso_8859_1

 

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TRISETCMP(1)							The Regina Handbook						      TRISETCMP(1)

NAME
trisetcmp - Compare triangulations between two Regina data files SYNOPSIS
trisetcmp [ -m | -n ] [ -s ] file1 file2 DESCRIPTION
Compares all triangulations in the first file against all triangulations in the second file, looking for pairs of triangulations that are combinatorially isomorphic. The two given files must be Regina data files. A full list of matches (or a full list of non-matches if -n is passed) is written to stan- dard output. A match occurs when some triangulation from file1 is combinatorially isomorphic to some triangulation from file2 (i.e., iden- tical up to a relabelling of tetrahedra and their vertices). This utility can also do subcomplex testing instead of full isomorphism testing. See the option -s for details. OPTIONS
-m (default) Output matches only. All isomorphic matches between triangulations in file1 and triangulations in file2 will be listed. -n Output non-matches only. All triangulations from file1 with no isomorphic match in file2 will be listed, and vice versa. If -s is passed then non-matches are tested in one direction only, not both; see below for details. -s Instead of testing triangulations for isomorphism, test whether one triangulation is isomorphic to a subcomplex of the other. In the default case of -m (output matches only), this program outputs all instances where a triangulation from file1 is isomorphic to a subcomplex of a triangulation from file2. In the case of -n (output non-matches only), this program outputs all triangulations from file1 that are not isomorphic to a subcom- plex of any triangulation from file2. INTERNATIONALISATION
If any packets contain international characters, Regina will attempt to convert these to your local character encoding as it writes them to the output. You can tell Regina what character encoding to use by setting standard locale-related environment variables, such as LANG, LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL. For example, if LANG is set to en_AU then output will be written in the Western European character set ISO-8859-1, and if LANG is set to en_AU.UTF-8 then output will be written in the universal character set UTF-8. Typically these environment variables will already be set for you when you install your GNU/Linux system, and Regina will just use the right character set out of the box. See your GNU/Linux system reference for further information on supporting different locales. MACOS X USERS
If you downloaded a drag-and-drop app bundle, this utility is shipped inside it. If you dragged Regina to the main Applications folder, you can run it as /Applications/Regina.app/Contents/MacOS/trisetcmp. WINDOWS USERS
The command-line utilities are installed beneath the Program Files directory; on some machines this directory is called Pro- gram Files (x86). You can start this utility by running c:Program FilesReginaRegina 4.93in risetcmp.exe. SEE ALSO
regina-gui. AUTHOR
This utility was written by Benjamin Burton <bab@debian.org>. Many people have been involved in the development of Regina; see the users' handbook for a full list of credits. 28 May 2012 TRISETCMP(1)
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